Python's zipfile: Manipulate Your ZIP Files Efficiently

Manipulating ZIP Files With Python

Darren Jones
Darren Jones 12 Lessons 58m intermediate python
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Python’s zipfile is a standard-library module intended to manipulate ZIP files. This file format is a widely adopted industry standard when it comes to archiving and compressing digital data. You can use it to package together several related files. It also allows you to reduce the size of your files and save disk space. Most importantly, it facilitates data exchange over computer networks.

Knowing how to create, read, write, populate, extract, and list ZIP files using the zipfile module is a useful skill to have as a Python developer or a DevOps engineer.

In this video course, you’ll learn how to:

  • Read, write, and extract files from ZIP files with Python’s zipfile
  • Read metadata about the content of ZIP files using zipfile
  • Use zipfile to manipulate member files in existing ZIP files
  • Create new ZIP files to archive and compress files

If you commonly deal with ZIP files, then this knowledge can help to streamline your workflow to process your files confidently.

To get the most out of this video course, you should know the basics of working with files, using the with statement, handling file system paths with pathlib, and working with classes and object-oriented programming.

If you’d like to learn more about the REPL used in this course, check out Discover bpython: A Python REPL With IDE-Like Features. Note that all the code in this course will also run in the Python standard REPL.

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Manipulating ZIP Files With Python

12 Lessons 58m

1. Manipulating ZIP Files With Python (Overview) 02:10

2. Getting Started With ZIP Files 04:33

3. Manipulating Existing ZIP Files 08:51

4. Reading Information From ZIP Files 07:46

5. Using Other Methods to Open and Read Member Files 05:52

6. Extracting Member Files and Closing ZIP Files 03:59

7. Creating and Populating ZIP Files 05:21

8. Compressing and Extracting Member Files 06:19

9. Exploring Additional Classes From zipfile 07:50

10. Running zipfile From the Command Line 02:44

11. Using Other Libraries to Manage ZIP Files 02:14

12. Manipulating ZIP Files With Python (Summary) 01:13

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With 20 years as a teacher of music technology, Darren is keen to bring his skills to the Python table.

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